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Mike Nugent
 

Michael Nugent

Dr. Michael Nugent is deputy director of the National Security Education Program (NSEP), and director of The Language Flagship. Before coming to NSEP, Dr. Nugent worked on a number of international grant programs at the U.S. Department of Education. These include developing and directing the U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program and the North America Mobility in Higher Education Program at the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). He also served as Chief of Section, overseeing the Title VI funding of National Resource Centers, Foreign Language and Areas Studies grants, and the Language Resource Centers.

Dr. Nugent has served in policy positions as Vice President for Administration and Research at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in Washington DC, and Deputy to the Chancellor for Systems Relations for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. Author of The Transformation of the Student Career: University study in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands (Routledge, 2004), he remains active in the field of international higher education policy.

Dr. Nugent has a PhD in higher education from Pennsylvania State University and serves on the Alumni Board of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He has been both a student of language and literature at universities in Germany, France, and Spain.

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The International Engineering Program is a dual-degree program combining a B.A. in German, French and/or Spanish with a B.S. in one of the engineering disciplines.  IEP students study language and culture each semester along with their engineering curriculum. In the fourth year of the five-year program, they then go abroad as interns with engineering based firms in Europe or Latin America, and also as exchange students with one of our partner universities